21 ordspråk av Marilyn French
Marilyn French
''I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes',' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.
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All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes.
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Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected
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Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected
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Everywhere in the world, men place all or most of the burden of raising children and maintaining the home on women, but pretend that this burden is not work; they do not reward it as work or count it as work in global accounting, in either developing
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Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
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Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior
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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains
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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains
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Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it
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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
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Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?
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Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?
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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
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